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Barry De Morgan
Great, great grand-nephew of William De Morgan, Barry, shares his anedotes of Wilhemina Stirling, who founded the De Morgan collection.In [...]
Unusual and early De Morgan tile panel
This William De Morgan tile panel recently surfaced at auction in Buckinghamshire. It shows a snake below two doves in [...]
Walter Crane and William De Morgan: Fairy Tales and Fantasy by Katja Robinson
Earlier in February adult education tutor Katja Robinson presented a lecture entitled Walter Crane and William De Morgan: Fairy Tales and Fantasy as part of a 5 [...]
General Pitt Rivers and De Morgan Pottery by Rosemary Pemberton
Scholar and researcher, Rosemary Pemberton, reveals the De Morgan ceramics in the Pitt Rivers collection. Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was [...]
Evelyn De Morgan: pioneering professional female artist
Mary Evelyn Pickering (1855-1919) is often described as the wife of famous Arts and Crafts potter, William De Morgan. Indeed, [...]
Sublime Symmetry exhibition curator Sarah Hardy discusses the educational content of the exihibition
Back in April 2013, the De Morgan Foundation invited local teachers from state and independent primary and secondary schools to [...]
The search for a tapestry
In this blog Art History student Callista Aston from the University of Auckland explains how she helped the De Morgan [...]
Rare examples of De Morgan Stained Glass have been brought to light
A much under researched part of William De Morgan's oeuvre is his designs for stained glass. Between 1865 and 1872 [...]
The Result of an Experiment
The Result of an Experiment was published anonymously by William and Evelyn De Morgan in 1909. It is not known [...]
The Great Cheese Mystery and Other De Morgan Adventures
Natasha Logan joined us for a short volunteering stint in the winter of 2014. She had previous museum experience but [...]
Evelyn De Morgan’s Angel panels, All Saints Church, Cawthorne
Hidden away in a dark corner of All Saints Church, in the tiny village of Cawthorne, some wonderful but relatively [...]
The secret behind the frame
This week we welcomed our painting conservator, Carol Willoughby. The De Morgan Foundation is undertaking conservation on eleven of Evelyn [...]
The De Morgan Foundation’s Valuable Volunteers
This week (1st – 7th June) is Volunteers’ Week, an annual event celebrating the contribution made by millions of volunteers [...]
Teaching History in 100 Objects – Cassandra
Recently the British Museum put out a call for objects for a project called 'Teaching History in 100 Objects'. This [...]
The mystery of The Livadia
It has long been common knowledge that De Morgan was employed by P&O’s ships architect T.E.Colcutt to design schemes and [...]